Theodore Payne Thurston
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The Right Reverend Theodore Payne Thurston | |
|---|---|
| Missionary Bishop of Oklahoma | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| See | Oklahoma |
| Elected | 1919 |
| In office | 1919-1926 |
| Predecessor | Francis Key Brooke |
| Successor | Eugene Cecil Seaman |
| Previous post | Missionary Bishop of Eastern Oklahoma (1911-1919) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | June 23, 1895 by Henry Benjamin Whipple |
| Consecration | January 25, 1911 by Daniel S. Tuttle |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 30, 1867 |
| Died | January 28, 1941 (aged 73) |
| Buried | Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | Benjamin Eaton Thurston & Mary Ann Siddall |
| Spouse |
Jane Mitchell
(m. 1904; died 1905)Daisy Dean Carroll (m. 1920) |
| Alma mater | Trinity College |
Theodore Payne Thurston (June 30, 1867 – January 28, 1941) was the first and only missionary bishop of the Missionary District of Eastern Oklahoma and the second missionary bishop of Oklahoma in the Episcopal Church between 1919 and 1926.
A son of Benjamin Eaton Thurston and Mary Ann Siddall, Theodore was born in Delavan, Illinois, on June 30, 1867. He was educated at the public schools in Philadelphia, graduating in June 1883 and then from Shattuck School at Faribault, Minnesota, in 1887. He also studied at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1891 and awarded a Doctor of Divinity in 1911. He completed his theological studies at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1894.[1]
Ordained ministry
Thurston was ordained deacon on June 20, 1894, by Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts, in St John's Memorial Chapel, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was then ordained priest on June 23, 1895, by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple at St Paul's Church in St. Paul, Missouri.[2] He initially served as rector of St Paul's Church in Owatonna, Minnesota, until 1897 when he moved to Winona, Minnesota, to become rector of St Paul's Church. In 1903 he went to Minneapolis, becoming rector of St Paul's Church where he remained until 1911.[3]
